Rodney King

[TruePaige]

So I was listening to the song April 29, 1992 by Sublime.

Reminded me of Rodney King.

SO I looked up what became of him.

Rodney King was awarded $3.8 million in damages from the City of Los Angeles for the attack. He invested most of this money in founding a record label, “Straight Alta-Pazz Records”. The venture was unable to garner any success and soon folded. Since the arrest which culminated in his severe beating by the four police officers, King has been arrested eleven times on a variety of misdemeanor charges, including domestic abuse and hit-and-run. King and his family moved from Los Angeles to Rialto, California, a suburb in San Bernardino County in an attempt to escape the fame and notoriety and to begin a new life. King and his family later returned to Los Angeles, where they run a family-owned construction company. King rarely discusses the incident or its aftermath, preferring to remain out of the spotlight. Renee Campbell, his most recent attorney, has described King as “...simply a very nice man caught in a very unfortunate situation.”

Dude got nearly 4 million dollars and lost most of it starting a record label?

I would live off 4 million dollars for a long, long time.

Mo-ron.

 

[moshquerade]

this is not surprising...

I love how his most recent attorney describes him as "a very nice man"... so nice [he] "King has been arrested eleven times on a variety of misdemeanor charges, including domestic abuse and hit-and-run."

 

[TruePaige]

this is not surprising...

I love how his most recent attorney describes him as "a very nice man"... so nice [he] "King has been arrested eleven times on a variety of misdemeanor charges, including domestic abuse and hit-and-run."

I know!

Nice people commit eleven offenses that relate in their arrest all the time, eh?

It's just like spilling a drink, happens!

 

[HannibalX]

King was a convicted felon on probation, alcoholic and drug addict before the beating. The night he got laid out by the boys in blue he ran from police and led them on a high speed chase while high/drunk because he didn't want to go back to jail. He refused to comply with arresting officers, resisted and got beat down. Was excessive force used? Not according to a California court but in my mind probably, a Federal court partially agreed and sent two of the officers to prison. It's no surprise King is basically the same person later in life, a criminal, thug, alcoholic piece of trash.

 

[SlitheryDee]

this is not surprising...

I love how his most recent attorney describes him as "a very nice man"... so nice [he] "King has been arrested eleven times on a variety of misdemeanor charges, including domestic abuse and hit-and-run."

Nobody ever brings up what happens after an event like that. People who were ranting against the injustice of the southern legal system when the Jena 6 incident occurred should look into what became of some of those boys too.

Nobody cares about the truth though. We like the battle lines to be clearly drawn between the forces of good (us and like minded people) and evil (easy to hate caricatures we create from the story). Seedy details that throw doubt on the snow white innocence of our heroes only muddies the waters.

 

[lupi]

wow, that's one crazy ass way to blow all your money.

 

[TruePaige]

King was a convicted felon on probation, alcoholic and drug addict before the beating. The night he got laid out by the boys in blue he ran from police and led them on a high speed chase while high/drunk because he didn't want to go back to jail. He refused to comply with arresting officers, resisted and got beat down. Was excessive force used? Not according to a California court but in my mind probably, a Federal court partially agreed and sent two of the officers to prison. It's no surprise King is basically the same person later in life, a criminal, thug, alcoholic piece of trash.

Sounds like he kind of...had an ass beating coming to him after all that stuff, and in retrospect (looking at his other crimes before and after) I feel even more sure he did have it coming.

 

[Eli]

Nope, not surprising at all.

Isn't it something like 60% of big-number lottery winners end up broke in a few years?

Stupid.

 

[rpanic]

He was in the news a year ago or so for getting blasted with a shotgun while riding his bicycle.

 

[HannibalX]

Same thing happens to a lot of professional athletes. I worked with two former NFL players who at the time were in their 50s and essentially broke even though they had both previously been millionaires.

 

[mjrpes3]

So is this how Dave Chappelle came up with every black dude starting a record company after getting reparations money?

 

[TruePaige]

So is this how Dave Chappelle came up with every black dude starting a record company after getting reparations money?

Pretty much. He also nailed the reason why so many lottery winners are so damn broke in a few years with the guys who gambled all their reparations money (one got really rich, the rest got really broke).